Full Stack Engineer (Frontend)

*Location*: Irvine, CA (Main Office in Irvine Spectrum, 5 days on-site)

About Us:

Autopilot is a cutting-edge trading app and registered investment advisor (RIA), revolutionizing how people invest and trade. We are backed by Craft Ventures (Airbnb, Slack, Tesla) and Nomad Ventures (Intro, Bezel). Seed-stage startup with the growth and metrics of a Series B company!

We're the team behind the viral app to invest alongside Politicians and have amassed 1.3M downloads, 2.5M social media followers, $700M in assets under management (AUM), 147k users, and a rapidly growing community of 82k subscribers. Autopilot is ranked among the Top 50 Most Downloaded Finance Apps. We connect to the largest financial brokerages in the U.S., delivering innovative trading tools inspired by market icons such as Nancy Pelosi, Jim Cramer, Warren Buffett, and Bill Ackman, as well as innovative pilots like Quiver Quantitative and Liquidity Tracker.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Full Stack Engineer who leans frontend, loves clean UI, and thrives in a fast-paced, product-driven environment. If you enjoy bringing designs to life, care deeply about user experience, and can also dip into backend work when needed—we’d love to meet you. This is a hands-on, highly impactful role in a fast-paced, engineering- and product-focused company.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Build, ship, and own high-quality frontend experiences using React (hooks, context, component design patterns).
• 90% frontend work, occasionally 10%> backend work.
• Collaborate closely with product and design to bring intuitive UIs to life.
• Write clean, maintainable code—on both the frontend and backend.
• Work with modern backend stacks (Node.js, serverless, etc.) to support the frontend.
• Help shape our architecture and engineering best practices as we scale.

Qualifications:

• 3-6 years of professional experience as a fullstack or frontend engineer, ideally in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Strong experience with React and frontend development (think animations, responsiveness, state management, accessibility).
• Experience with REST APIs (or GraphQL), modern JS/TS, and common tooling (Webpack/Vite, testing frameworks).
• A product mindset—you think about the user and how to solve real problems.
• Bonus: Experience with design systems, analytics, performance optimization, or backend infra.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Fintech, particularly with integrations involving platforms like Robinhood, Stripe, Plaid, or similar platforms/apps.
• Proficiency in full stack development; comfortable jumping into backend code if needed.
• Proficiency in TypeScript for backend development (open to other languages).
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar cloud infrastructure.
• Expertise in distributed systems, API integration, and cloud-hosted applications.
• Passion for building user-centered solutions and delivering impact.
• A self-starter mentality with strong ownership and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with some of these backend tech stacks: node.js, typescript, graphql, nest.js, gcp, google pubsub, postgres sql, etc.

Benefits:

• Benefits: Generous UNLIMITED PTO (and we mean it!).
• Mandated two-week holiday shutdown at the end of the year for Christmas and New Year’s company holidays.
• Autopilot covers 99% of premiums for employee and dependent benefits (health, dental, vision).
• Top-of-the-line equipment: laptops, external monitors, standing desks, etc.
• Access to a beautiful WeWork office in Irvine Spectrum:
• Unlimited nitro cold brew and weekly office events.
• Free monthly parking pass.
• Onsite gym.
• Shared communal space/office with other thriving companies and startups.
• Walkable access to a variety of restaurants and amenities.